Alan J. Pakula Quotes

Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.
ALAN J. PAKULA

Actors Certain Way
If you’re going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you’re doing it for the first time.
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Come First Go Make Sure Time
Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors.
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Conductor Director Hand Orchestra Tendency Use
They don’t realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.
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Actor Anyway Face Look Realize
I like trying to do things which work on many levels, because I think it is terribly important to give an audience a lot of things they might not get as well as those they will.
ALAN J. PAKULA

Audience Important Level Lot Many Terrible Thing Try Well Work
So that finally the film does take on a texture and is not just simplistic communication.
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Communication Film Final Simplistic Take Texture
I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature.
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Nature Oblique Own Think
I’ve hardly had an avant-garde career.
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Career Hardly